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May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now June 29th, 2022 (Hour 1)
May the Fourth Be With Us! American Routes Independence Day Then & Now

This July 4th weekend, we dive into the record crates to bring you music of celebration, hope and critique from Nina Simone, Randy Newman, Sly Stone and Jon Batiste. Then, the July 4th roots of American Routes as we go back to the 1990s, deep in the archive, for highlights from The American Roots Independence Day concerts at the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Join us for spectacular stage performances by the urbane blues hero Charles Brown, the Texas Playboys with Johnny Gimble playing Western swing, Mexican-American Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Young Tuxedo Brass with New Orleans jazz, and Hawaiian music and song of slack-key guitar master Ledward Kaapana.

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HURRICANE - AUBREY GHENT

July 28th, 1999

Don your goulashes and batten down the hatches — it’s hurricane season in the Gulf South. Music to board up windows by and thoughts from the eye of the storm with sacred steel guitarist Aubrey Ghent, along with steamy sounds from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charles Mingus, John Prine, and Marilyn Monroe.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: They Call Me Guitar Hurricane Stevie Ray Vaughan
    In the Beginning, Epic
  • El Ramplago Narciso Martinez
    Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 1, Arhoolie
  • Texas Tornado Doug Sahm
    The Best of Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975, Mercury
  • When The Levee Breaks Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
    Mojo Workin' - Blues For the Next Generation, Columbia/Legacy
  • Bad Weather Sonny Landreth
    Outward Bound, Zoo/Praxis
  • L'Ouragon (The Hurricane) Michael & David Doucet
    Master of the Folk Violin, Arhoolie
  • L'Anne de Secont Set Alex Broussard
    French Music and Folk Song of Le Sud de la Louisianne, La Louisianne
  • Instrumental: Storm Warning Dr. John
    Mos' Scoscious - The Dr. John Anthology, Rhino
  • Rain Children Sons of Andros
    The Bahamas: Islands of Song, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Oh How It Rained Eddie Floyd
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971, Stax
  • Tidal Wave Dick Dale
    Better Shred Than Dead, Rhino
  • The Tide Is High The Paragons
    Island 40, Vol. 2: 1964-1969 Rhythm & Blues Beat, Island
  • Deep Water Willie Nelson and Ray Price
    San Antonio Rose, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Cake Left Out in the Rain Double Naught Spy Car
    Comb in Blue Water, 11 Foot Pole
  • INTERVIEW: Aubrey Ghent

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  • Troubled Waters Duke Ellington w/Ivie Anderson
    Daybreak Express, RCA
  • Quiet Storm Smokey Robinson
    A Quiet Storm, Motown
  • Eye of the Hurricane Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Mark Whitfield
    Fingerpainting: The Music of Herbie Hancock, Verve

HOUR two

  • Hurricane Connie Cannonball Adderley
    Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley, EmArcy
  • Hurricanes Carla & Esther Lightning Hopkins
    Po' Lightning, Arhoolie
  • Great Rain John Prine
    The Missing Years, Oh Boy
  • Been in the Storm So Long Mrs. Mary Pickney
    Been in the Storm So Long, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Rainy Night Lee Morgan
    Charisma, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Typhoon Cootie Williams & his Orchestra
    The 1940s Mercury Sessions, Mercury
  • Florida Hurricane St. Louis Jimmy
    The Aristocrat of the Blues, MCA/Chess
  • Emotional Weather Report Tom Waits
    Nighthawks At the Diner, Asylum
  • INTERVIEW: John Guiney, National Hurricane Center
  • Instrumental: Hawaii 5-O The Ventures
    Monster Summer Hits - Wild Surf, Capitol
  • Heatwave Marilyn Monroe
    The Essential Recordings, Wienerworld
  • The I Of Hurricane Sue Charles Mingus
    Let My Children Hear Music, Columbia
  • Come Rain or Come Shine Sarah Vaughan
    Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi, Columbia
  • Walkin to New Orleans Fats Domino
    They Call Me the Fat Man…, Imperial
  • Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
    Good Old Boys, Reprise
  • End Bed: Backwater Blues Edgar Hayes & the Stardusters
    Swing Time Records Story, Capricorn

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